This was our fifth visit to the Park and this time luck only was not enough. One had to hunt and work hard for sightings.

We stayed for 14 nights and except for one morning we always left camp first when the gates open and almost every evening came back just before the gate closed.

Some people told us they were in the park for a week and still with no Lion sightings. We had a new record of 31 lion sightings.

Some were far on the dunes.

The first afternoon we took the Leeudril road and we were surprised to see so many cars, just past Samevloeiing, and that for only one cheetah lying next to the road. I only took one pic for the record and drove on. (We only later realised how hard to find the cats were.)

May be we must blame the Eland. They were the ones that new a drought was on its way and they travelled south, damaged and emptied many water holes, ate a lot of grass and trampled the veld. Now they have left, only some carcasses stayed behind.

We went as far as Dikbaardskolk, but did not see much on that road, except for a stretching Southern Pale Chanting Goshawk and the normal game, Gemsbok, Springbok etc. Fortunately the road surface was not too bad.